Air Liquide Deploys Top Layer's IPS 5500 Across 100 Sites Nationwide

AIQUY | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Top Layer Networks, a provider of Network Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), announced that Air Liquide has deployed its IPS 5500 intrusion prevention solutions.

The deployment spans 100 sites across the U.S. where Top Layer's IPS 5500 solutions will be used to protect Air Liquide's industrial network from cyber threats.

Air Liquide said it relies on production from nearly 200 plants across the United States to produce its products. The manufacturing facilities create a security environment, where distributed control systems (DCS), programmable logic controllers (PLC) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems are crucial to ongoing operations, the company said.

Charles Neely Harper, Director of National Supply & Pipeline Operations for Air Liquide Large Industries U.S. LP, said, "The IPS 5500 delivers highly-reliable deep packet inspection to protect the SCADA systems and industrial network from cyber threats that exist around every corner of the Internet," according to Harper. Upon deployment, the IPS 5500 instantly identified oversized control packets and numerous DNS protocol anomalies. In addition, bypass mode identified many active attacks originating from countless sources, many from locations they would have never guessed. A number of these threats were initiated by compromised computers that had not been patched with the latest Microsoft security updates, which alerted Air Liquide to revise its patching process along the way."

"The impact of cyber attacks continues to broaden in reach and severity, and hackers are now targeting industrial facilities to wreak their havoc," said Ken Pappas, security strategist at Top Layer Networks. "With safety and regulatory compliance paramount in the manufacturing sector, companies and plants need the highest levels of protection possible from this growing threat; intrusion prevention is a key layer in an effective defense-in-depth security strategy."

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